USN-3142-2: ImageMagick regression
USN-3142-2: ImageMagick regression Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3142-2 22nd February, 2017 imagemagick regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary USN-3142-1 introduced a regression in ImageMagick. Software description imagemagick – Image manipulation programs and library Details USN-3142-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ImageMagick. The security fixesintroduced a regression with text labels and a regression with the textcoder. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain malformed image files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Update instructions The problem can be [ more… ]